“Relativismo e Assolutismo” – Gianni VATTIMO & Nuccio ORDINE

"Uccidere un uomo non significa mai difendere una dottrina, ma semplicemente uccidere un uomo." Sébastien Castellion "La visione dogmatica è terapeutica perchè ci libra dal difficultà della scelta." Nuccio Ordine Dialogo tra il filosofo Gianni Vattimo e il professore di Letteratura italiana Nuccio Ordine a Reggio Emilia, il 21 aprile 2012. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UclSRhhOO8 Nuccio Ordine (Diamante, Calábria, 18 de…

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“Scienza, guerra, potere” – Gianni VATTIMO

Festa di Scienza e Filosofia, quinta edizione. Foligno, Auditorium San Domenico, domenica 12 aprile 2015. Riprese e montaggio a cura dell'ITT Foligno. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boBioKvyWfg Gianteresio Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduated with a laurea in 1959. In 1963 he moved to…

“The Age of Interpretation” – Gianni VATTIMO

The philosophical truth of hermeneutics, namely its claim to be a more “valid” thought than other philosophies—for example, to be a more “truthful” philosophy than neo-empiricism or historical materialism, et cetera— evidently cannot be maintained on the basis of a description of what, according to it, the state of affairs really is. That, as Nietzsche writes,…

“Anticlericalism and Atheism” – Richard RORTY

Some day, intellectual historians may remark that the twentieth century was the one in which the philosophy professors began to stop asking bad questions—questions like “What really exists?” “What are the scope and limits of human knowledge?” and “How does language hook up with reality?” These questions assume that philosophy can be done ahistorically. They…

“Niilismo, existencialismo e gnosticismo: a hermenêutica existencial de Franco Volpi” – Rodrigo MENEZES

A obra de Heidegger, leitor de Nietzsche, apresenta um paradoxo que é o mesmo de boa parte do pensamento contemporâneo: “Nela, com efeito, parecem tocar-se e conviver dois extremos incompatíveis: de um lado, um niilismo radical; de outro, o convite a uma visão inspirada, senão mesmo ao misticismo.”[i] Daí, segundo Volpi, em face dos escritos…